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Looking for help or at least a compass direction. A deep ( page) Google search only turned up partial solutions or whitepapers. I would like to take an image (2:1 ratio) and map that onto a sphere then flatten the sphere in to 12 gore sections for printing then gluing to a Chinese lantern. 2:1 maps to a sphere in PS pretty good, not looking to make maps. The sections are a 30 degree interrupted sinusoidal map projection. Maybe the Photoshop 3D Guru +Corey S Barker knows how, he knows everything PS 3D. ﻿

…but maybe a not so common resolve:
Photography has got to be one of the most emotionally draining professions in the world. Maybe its because as creative people we carry our work close to us personally and when we don’t get validation we take it so very personally. Maybe its because even when we give our best the average person looks at us and says “All you did was push a button.”
at Tim Skipper’s blog

Life is not a bed of roses - and that is especially true for making art. Things don't always go as we plan or anticipate. The emotional discouragement of the moment is, itself, part of the artmaking process - and one that we need to understand and deal with.

taking photos in harsh sunlight. Taking photographs of people in harsh sunlight will always be one of the more daunting lighting situations we can find ourselves in. Without additional lighting, or th...

How do you critique an image that is horrible with 2 or 3 bad, heavy handed effects added to it? Even worse, this is their "style" and the ones close to them have probably told them they are great....﻿

Not going to publicly embarrass somebody who doesn't deserve it by linking here. If this was a "pro" then I would. So this is the stuff they shoot...

A border effect followed by a black (heavy) vignette with a dark subject (centered) making up less than 10% of the image under some trees. The background is brightly lit and very chaotic. The shadows are blocked and highlights are blown. The view is slightly wide angle at eye height. The horizon is in the middle.

Sometimes they add fake film borders before the vignette because the vignette covers the film edges.﻿